{"id":3413,"date":"2010-12-16T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2010-12-16T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T16:41:39","slug":"knocking-the-optimist-down-a-peg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"knocking the optimist down a peg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3402\">The video<\/a> I posted earlier has caught <a href=\"http:\/\/mungowitzend.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/hans-roslings-chart-is-seriously.html\">one skeptic&#8217;s attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I guess I am the last person with an internet connection to see this video.<\/p>\n<p>Yes he&#8217;s an entertaining and enthusiastic guy. Yes, the rise of China and India is amazing and fantastic. Yes there is a large &#8220;middle class&#8221; of countries.<\/p>\n<p>But people, have you looked at the horizontal axis of his chart? The distance between $400 and $4000 is the same as the distance between $4000 and $40000.<\/p>\n<p>That is incredibly misleading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video I posted earlier has caught one skeptic&#8217;s attention. I guess I am the last person with an internet connection to see this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}